Quotes About Intoxication

I am very good at keeping secrets, except when I am drunk, when I will tell you absolutely anything.

The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.

You come home, and you party. But after that, you get a hangover. Everything about that is negative.

Her perfume already had me by the knot in my tie and was gently kicking my brain around inside my skull.

I had a second drink to wipe out the raw taste of the first.

The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die.

I find my vocabulary is quite a lot better when I'm hungover. I feel like I unlock a key of words that I don't usually use in day-to-day life.

The relationship between a Russian and a bottle of vodka is almost mystical.

Although the far territory of the extreme can exert an intoxicating pull on susceptible individuals of all bents, extremism seems to be especially prevalent among those inclined by temperament or upbringing toward religious pursuits. Faith is the very antithesis of reason, injudiciousness a crucial component of spiritual devotion. And when religious fanaticism supplants ratiocination, all bets are suddenly off.

could have been chloral," Steve said. "Chloral hydrate. The stuff they use when they want to give somebody a mickey.

They got stoneder and stoneder and quit talking.

Ebrio de insomnio y de vertiginosa dialéctica

With each passing day, I allowed myself to become a little more intoxicated by limitless possibilities which seemed sometimes to roll in with the fog, murmur suggestions that would have made me run yelling from them had I been anywhere [other than San Francisco], then leave me to cope with that special brand of terror bestowed by sweet and sour tastes of freedom.

Good boozers make good bruisers.

Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Truth comes out in wine.

In wine, there's truth.

In vino veritas

In vino veritas ("In wine, truth")

Oh, do I know them? I positively swill in their ale.

When the wine is in, the wit is out.

Conversation did not flow with the drink; it drowned in it.

She's too stoned to run, but stoned enough to be terrified.